title: The non-phosphorylating glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase: biochemistry, structure, occurrence and evolution.
abstract: The non-phosphorylating glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase catalyses the irreversible reaction of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate to 3-phosphoglycerate by the reduction of NADP to NADPH. This is in contrast to the extensively analysed phosphorylating glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenases which catalyse the reversible reaction of glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate to 1,3-bisphosphoglycerate. Sequence analysis revealed that the non-phosphorylating glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase is not related to the phosphorylating glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenases but a member of the aldehyde dehydrogenase superfamily. The aldehyde dehydrogenases are of ancient origin and they have already existed in the progenote as indicated by phylogenetic analysis. Thus the non-phosphorylating glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase can be found in all three domains, archaea, bacteria and eukarya. The catalytic mechanism of the non-phosphorylating glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase and the other aldehyde dehydrogenases resembles a thioester mechanism involving the universally conserved cysteine 298 (pea GAPN). The cofactor of the aldehyde dehydrogenases is bound in a new mode to a structure described as beta-alpha,beta-fold.
authors.affiliation: Institut für Industrielle Genetik, Stuttgart, Germany.
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authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Habenicht
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001483:Base Sequence; D019143:Evolution, Molecular; D005987:Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenases / Q000737:chemistry / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism; D007700:Kinetics; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D010766:Phosphorylation; D011487:Protein Conformation; D017386:Sequence Homology, Amino Acid; D013379:Substrate Specificity
chemical_list: D005987:Glyceraldehyde-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenases